State, Capital and Labour: Changing Patterns of Power and by Gill Ursell

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In short, we argue that the dynamo of human his tory is not something inhuman but rather is human will, pitted against conditions of existence which there is adesire to alter, exploit or obliterate. The difficulties raised by economic determinism in analyses are resolved if economics is construed as a particular dis course of politics. If politics is understood as competition and co-operation among people in the distribution, exploitation and development ofresources, then to invoke the rationale of economics is to lay a claim as to how best that competition and co-operation should be conducted.

Abercrombie, Hill and Turner (1986) point out that individualism preceded capitalism as an out-turn ofthe egalitarianism and universalism of monotheistic Christianity; such individualism did not cause capitalism; rather it was a case of 'elective affinity'. The 'elective affinity' came about because individualism was an element of consensus available to be used in the political attack on royal absolutism. As this attack succeeded, it created the space in which unconditioned market relations could ßourish.

It is often taken as a claim that the general population have always figured politically in the history of the modern state. In the sense of exercising negative control rather than proactive power, to invoke Olson (1965), that claim is credible. But it must be qualified by two observations: (1) that elite advantage succeeds precisely by excluding people from the political process; and (2) that exclusionary tactics can be maintained at informal levels where political management indicates they best be moderated at the formal.